| 单词 | in exile |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin exile Phrases in exile. Used postpositively. a. Designating a government formed abroad by exiles from a country or territory, in response to the (perceived) illegitimacy of the territory’s current formal government, esp. as a result of occupation by a foreign power. ΚΠ 1918 Times 5 Apr. 5 It has been my privilege to spend several days at St. Adresse, the seat of the Belgian Government in exile. 1943 Life 10 May 30/1 The most cheerful thing that can be said about Russia's breaking off relations with the Polish government-in-exile is that it ‘clears the air’. 1981 Christian Sci. Monitor 21 Apr. 2/5 The Palestinian parliament-in-exile has ended a nine-day session, electing a new executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization. 1990 Dalai Lama XIV Freedom in Exile viii. 153 Women always played an important part in Tibetan society and today there are many who hold key posts in the Tibetan Government in Exile. 1991 Independent 1 Nov. 20/1 The formal exclusion of the Palestine Liberation Organisation at Israel's insistence came down in practice to the exclusion of the old and unattractive gang of professional Palestinian politicians-in-exile. 2011 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 27 Oct. 62/3 He was one of the leading anti-Nazi voices in Germany, and after 1933 he would become known as ‘the Hindenburg of the emigration’, a kind of president-in-exile. b. Designating a person with a specified occupation who is living in a foreign country as an exile. ΚΠ 1953 S. W. Herman Rep. from Christian Europe vii. 150 As the late Nikolai Berdyaev, great Russian philosopher-in-exile, said ‘The division of the world into two parts is inadmissible for the Christian conscience.’ 1988 M. Cohen in L. Hutcheon & M. Richmond Other Solitudes (1990) 154 All this is according to my father; he was the historian-in-exile, but that is another story. 1994 Starweek 1 Oct. 82/1 Notorious auteur-in-exile Roman Polanski continues to investigate the dark side of human sexuality with this goony erotic psychodrama. 2000 C. Achebe Home & Exile 91 The notion of restlessness, of the artist-in-exile has been very attractive to the western mind. < as lemmas |
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